Information about our use of cookies

Our websites uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our websites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and also allows us to improve our sites. By continuing to browse our sites, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

What types of Cookies are on our websites?

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our websites, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our websites works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our websites. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our websites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our websites and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie	Name	Purpose	More information	Expiry
Google Analytics	Name	_ga _gid	Purpose	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.	More information	https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245	Expiry	(_ga) 2 years (_gid) 1 day
Youtube API	Name	GPS PREF VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE YSC	Purpose	Used by YouTube (Google) for storing user preferences and other unspecified purposes	More information	.youtube.com https://policies.google.com/privacy	Expiry	(GPS) half an hour (PREF) 8 months (VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE) 6 months (YSC) Session
Locationiq	Name	__cfduid	Purpose	Used by Locationiq to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address.	More information	.locationiq.com	Expiry	(__cfduid) 2 years

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Can I block Cookies?

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How long do Cookies last?

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire, see table above.